KIEV, April 11 – Ukraine plans by 2014 to liberalize gas laws in line with the requirements of European laws, Deputy Energy and Coal Industry Minister Volodymyr Makukha said at the Polish-Ukrainian gas conference in Warsaw on Thursday.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, April 11 - Trials of the Antonov An-70 Russian-Ukrainian modernized military transport airplane have been suspended due to the absence of the Russian partners in the project, Dmytro Kiva, president and chief designer of Antonov State Enterprise, based in Kiev, said.

KIEV, April 12 – The government approved a memorandum with Russian oil major Lukoil aimed at restarting its petrochemical unit in Ukraine, the government reported in a statement on Friday.

KIEV, April 12 - Ukraine will begin exporting its natural gas to Europe in four to five years and will become a net exporter of energy by 2025, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Eduard Stavytskiy said Friday.

KIEV, April 14 - DTEK has said that its participation in the tenders to sell state-owned stakes in electricity generating company Dniproenergo (Zaporizhia), Zakhidenergo (Lviv), Kyivenergo and electricity supply company Donetskoblenergo is a top-priority.

KIEV, April 14 – The results of Kiev’s privatizations of the past few years are apparently far from final.

Kiev city administration plans to continue work on returning illegally sold assets in courts, the head of the chief Kiev's municipal property department, Dmytro Parfenenko, said.

KIEV, April 13 – The TNK-BP Group plans to invest $500 million in the upgrade of CJSC LINIK (Lysychansk oil refinery Linos, Luhansk region), German Khan, CEO of OJSC TNK-BP Management (Moscow), said.

KIEV, April 14 – The temporary administrator at Rodovid Bank, Serhiy Scherbyna, said that the financial situation at the bank is very difficult due to the fact that assets of Ukrprombank under liquidation worth UAH 6.9 billion have not been transferred to the bank.

KIEV, April 14 – The board of directors of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development for the third time postponed the term for consideration of a state-secured EUR 175 million loan to be issued to Ukrenergo to build the 750 kV Zaporizhia NPP-Kakhovska power transmission line and the 750/330/220 kV Kakhovska substation.

KIEV, April 14 – The Ukrainian government's inflation forecast could be reached and surpassed in May or June, if the monthly pace of growth in the consumer price index does not fall considerably, an expert has warned.